Recorded live on September 24, 2004 at the Festhalle Frankfurt, Germany from Rush's R30: 30th Anniversary Tour. This is from the Blu-ray version of R30, containing the complete concert, which was released on December 8, 2009 in the US, and in late 2013 in Europe. This video is a live acoustic version of the song "Resist", with both Geddy and Alex playing acoustic guitars and Geddy singing with no drums or percussion from Neil Peart. "Resist" is the 9th song from Rush's sixteenth studio album "Test for Echo", recorded at Bearsville Studios in Bearsville, NY and Reaction Studios in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was recorded January - March 1996 & released on September 10, 1996. It marks the final Rush work prior to the tragic events in Neil Peart's life that put the band on hiatus for several years, as well as the final Rush album to be co-produced by Peter Collins.
Arriving a full three years after Counterparts, Rush fans had never had to wait so long for a new album from the band. “During that time,” Peart notes in the official tour book, “Geddy and his wife produced a baby girl, Alex produced a solo album [Victor], and I produced a tribute to the big-band music of Buddy Rich. We worked; we traveled; we lived our lives; and it was fine.” Geddy also wanted to be at home for the first year of his daughter's life. The title of the album even reflects the time away from one another and from their fans. “Test for Echo,” Peart explains, was a means of Rush both asking and assuring its fan base that neither was alone. “Everybody needs an ‘echo,’ some affirmation to know they’re not alone.”
The first sessions were difficult for Alex, having had full control of Victor and the "same old" discussions with Lee as to what direction the new Rush album would be prior to writing. "Once I exorcised those ghosts, the following week we wrote five songs. We dove into it, and it was very, very positive from then on." Peart, however, downplays the tensions, at least in his remembrances, and, instead, focuses on the new drumming technique he had learned from Freddy Gruber between this album and Counterparts. “I could feel I had brought my playing to a whole new level, both technically and musically.” With previous albums, the drummer claims, he “struggled to find new ways of challenging” himself. With Test for Echo, however, he believes he “came in with so much,” he had to “edit” himself. Peart played using traditional grip for most of the album, whereas he had used matched grip for the majority of his drumming career.
“Resist” is a deeply personal anthem, a restatement of Peartian principles of individualism, but done so in a very acoustic, singer-song writer friendly way. Inspired by the dark romantic, Oscar Wilde, Resist never crosses the line into melodrama. Rather, it successfully embraces a bardic feel. The line, "I can resist everything except temptation," is a quote from the play Lady Windermere's Fan, Act 1 by Oscar Wilde.
[Excerpt]
LORD DARLINGTON. And men? Do you think that there should be the same laws for men as there are for women?
LADY WINDERMERE. Certainly!
LORD DARLINGTON. I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.
LADY WINDERMERE. If we had 'these hard and fast rules,' we should find life much more simple.
LORD DARLINGTON. You allow of no exceptions?
LADY WINDERMERE. None!
LORD DARLINGTON. Ah, what a fascinating Puritan you are, Lady Windermere!
LADY WINDERMERE. The adjective was unnecessary, Lord Darlington.
LORD DARLINGTON. I couldn't help it. I can resist everything except temptation.
The album version of "Resist" is a full band rendition, with drums, electric and acoustic guitars, bass, and harmony vocals. The overall feel of the song is much different than this acoustic version, to the point that I personally see the versions as separate entities. The album version is very majestic and a wonderful work of art. That said, this acoustic version is my favorite. This is one of the few songs by Rush that IMO sounds better played acoustically. It just makes the song so personal, with the powerful lyrics standing out more.
* The album cover displays an inuksuk, native to the band's home country of Canada. Created by the Inuit, an inuksuk is a stone figure in the shape of a human used to mark a food cache, hunting ground or a place where someone lost their life.
* On the original album version, the instrument played at the beginning of the song is a hammer dulcimer, not a guitar, and was played by Neil Peart.
* Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee began performing this acoustically on the "Vapor Trails" tour after Neil Peart performed his lengthy drum solo ("O Baterista") and released this version on "Rush In Rio." This was so popular they repeated it in their set for the 30th anniversary tour 2 years later.
* Alex Lifeson picked "Resist" as one of his favorite tracks, and among the best Rush had ever recorded.
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